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🗓️ 13 December 2021
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Anything Goes with James English Ep/231
My Battle With Addictions - Footballer Paul Merson Tells His Story.
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0:00.0 | Oh, Bimmer on, in today's guess we're a football of Paul Meeron. |
0:17.0 | And today's guest we've got football I'm here soon. |
0:20.0 | Paul how had you brother? |
0:21.0 | Yeah, very good, thank you, yeah, good. |
0:22.0 | Good to see you man. |
0:23.4 | She is. |
0:24.1 | What's your documentary a couple of weeks ago? Powerful stuff. |
0:26.8 | All about the gambling and drink drugs. Kind of everybody that it's somebody knows |
0:32.1 | is here I've been involved in and knows a family member, a friend, |
0:34.3 | it's an addict somewhere along the line, but first and foremost brother, I just want to say thanks for coming on the show. |
0:40.1 | Ah, pleasure. It's been a long time, isn't it? It's been, it's been a long time, isn't it? It's been, I can do it then, I can do it now. |
0:44.3 | I say, yeah, I'm pleased I can do it. |
0:46.1 | Good, mate. Obviously we know about the addictions and stuff which we'll touch on later on. |
0:49.7 | If you, balls would like to go back to the start of my guests where you grew up how it all began? |
0:55.1 | I grew up in a place called Holesden, which, uh, but the north-northwest London. |
1:02.0 | Yeah, Dad was a Coleman. Mom used to like sort of work from home sort of |
1:05.4 | of thing making ribbons, things like that. Yeah, I can remember we used to live in like |
1:10.1 | this house, but old lady used to live underneath and our front door was the bottom of the |
1:15.1 | stairs that was our front door so that was our front door and then we went up the |
1:19.0 | stairs to our house yeah a little flat wet the bed till I was at least 10. It used to lay on plastic sheets. |
1:28.6 | Every time you turned it was light, the noise was bad. Yeah very insecure very yeah very quiet shy kid when I grew up you know |
1:40.7 | football was my release I love playing football I love that's all I knew I was |
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